Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BAND. In recent sea sons, homosexuality has surfaced as a dramatic theme, and Mart Crowley's uncompromising drama deals with it coolly and honestly, lancing bitchy merriment with desolating insight. An expert cast plays the host and guests at a homosexual birthday party with skill and grace...
...finally comes out: Jackie Kennedy, for all her highly touted grace and sophistication, hadn't even the courtesy to return a greeting from Richard Nixon when both of them were mourners at Martin Luther King's funeral. It wasn't even at a political rally (even then an icy stare would be ill-mannered), but at a dignified church service that this show of ignorance occurred. What makes it doubly ironic is that it happened at the funeral of a man who would never have done this type of thing himself...
Fear of a Fiasco. The decision naturally infuriated South Africans, who had only been restored to Olympic grace last February-after a four-year suspension-by finally agreeing to field a fully integrated team. Athletes would be chosen without regard to color, would live and train together in Mexico City. Nevertheless, such was the outcry over the reinstatement that Mexican officials feared their games would turn into an $84 million fiasco if South Africa were permitted to compete...
...Richard (David Tresemer) who snuff out their imaginary lovelifes with all the thrilling bile of a child smashing his toys--and all the satisfaction. The waste of suburban life has been spilled on stage before but Pinter's prim yet wrenching method invests the slush with a startling grace...
...lettered speech, The Boys in the Band is a play that may be repellent to some viewers. Yet it also has an unmistakable dramatic intensity, a human and humorous appeal that surmounts the netherworld of its focus. The cast is expert, and the players interact with such flawless skill, grace and timing that they could declare themselves an ensemble company right now and be ranked with the best...